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  #2735725 28-Jun-2021 12:43
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Fred99:

 

Shiny clean unmarked 4WDs with body lift, mud tyres, snorkel, LED floodlights, all have two dipsticks as a standard feature.

 

 

 

 

I'd argue three - they're invariably automatics.  Not that the third would know how to do anything with the other two...


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  #2735729 28-Jun-2021 12:53
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Fred99:

 

Yep - which takes it back to those stupid 4WD adverts.

 

The few that actually get used for recreational 4WD can be spotted from half a mile away, covered in mud - or if clean then numerous dents and scrapes.

 

Shiny clean unmarked 4WDs with body lift, mud tyres, snorkel, LED floodlights, all have two dipsticks as a standard feature.

 

 

Reminds me of the MASSIVE Jeep Wrangler with lift kit I saw struggling in a carpark at a mall. 

 

He couldn't find a park large enough to allow him the turning circle and width required to get the behemoth into a space. It was a busy day and traffic kept piling up around him as he tried to manhandle the beast into one park after another with no luck. 

 

It was a classic p3ni$ extension - enormous lift kit, matte green wrap instead of paint, enormous wheels with expensive off-road specific tyres on and "angry eyes" headlight modifications. All the bumpers had been replaced with expensive pseudo-industrial stuff (think grown-up mechano), a winch installed on the front, with a basket-style roof-rack, which would reduce the aerodunamics by a large amount; and this thing was maybe a couple of years old and had obviously never been off-pavement. 

 

Young guy driving it clearly had more money than sense and was a poor driver to boot. He eventually got stuck trying to park and was still there when I left. 

 

 

 

More or less the same as this (but less tastefully done): 

 

Supercharged Jeep Wrangler pumps up performance





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Handsome Dan needs to stop adding three dots to every sentence...

 

Handsome Dan does not currently have a side hustle as the mascot for Yale 

 

 

 

*Gladly accepting donations...


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  #2735730 28-Jun-2021 12:53
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SirHumphreyAppleby:

 

Do I even need to say why?

 

 

 

It continues with an email telling me that "Kiwis needs are changing" in big red letters. And what, pray tell, is a "kiwis"?


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  #2735793 28-Jun-2021 13:22
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Apparently, they no longer 'need' timely reliable delivery of their parcels, they just need new logos for the services they already buy.

 

 


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  #2735795 28-Jun-2021 13:27
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More incompetent management drives a potentially viable business into the ground. Happens all the time. Got a problem? Can't fix it? Don't understand it? Just change the logo so it looks like you are doing something!

 

 

 

 





Plesse igmore amd axxept applogies in adbance fir anu typos

 


 


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  #2735798 28-Jun-2021 13:36
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Rikkitic:

 

More incompetent management drives a potentially viable business into the ground. Happens all the time. Got a problem? Can't fix it? Don't understand it? Just change the logo so it looks like you are doing something!

 

 

Its modern bizniss innit.

 

My employer has a new CEO. He seems a nice fella and this is not a personal attack or accusation of incompetence.

 

He's been in the role about 6 months. What's the first visible thing to occur?

 

A management restructure.

 

My guess is that about 4 years from now the structure will be changed back to how it was :-) 

 

Who's taking bets?

 

 





Most of the posters in this thread are just like chimpanzees on MDMA, full of feelings of bonhomie, joy, and optimism. Fred99 8/4/21


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  #2735872 28-Jun-2021 14:19
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elpenguino:

 

Rikkitic:

 

More incompetent management drives a potentially viable business into the ground. Happens all the time. Got a problem? Can't fix it? Don't understand it? Just change the logo so it looks like you are doing something!

 

 

Its modern bizniss innit.

 

My employer has a new CEO. He seems a nice fella and this is not a personal attack or accusation of incompetence.

 

He's been in the role about 6 months. What's the first visible thing to occur?

 

A management restructure.

 

My guess is that about 4 years from now the structure will be changed back to how it was :-) 

 

Who's taking bets?

 

 

 

 

what happened to the previous ceo?


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  #2735876 28-Jun-2021 14:27
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A new CEO took the reins of a company, on his desk were three numbered envelopes and a note from the previous CEO. The note said "If the stock drops, open the first envelope".

 

After a while the stock price dipped, so he opened envelope number one. The note inside said "Blame the previous management. If the price drops again, open number two".

 

After a year or so, the stocks dipped again. Inside number two it said "Restructure - If management is vertical, flatten it, if its flat, add more layers. If the price drops again, open number three."

 

After another year or two, the price dropped, so he opened number three. It read "Prepare three envelopes..."


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  #2735878 28-Jun-2021 14:35
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BlinkyBill:

 

what happened to the previous ceo?

 

 

S/he was probably restructured.

 

 





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  #2735882 28-Jun-2021 14:56
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BlinkyBill:

 

elpenguino:

 

Its modern bizniss innit.

 

My employer has a new CEO. He seems a nice fella and this is not a personal attack or accusation of incompetence.

 

He's been in the role about 6 months. What's the first visible thing to occur?

 

A management restructure.

 

My guess is that about 4 years from now the structure will be changed back to how it was :-) 

 

Who's taking bets?

 

 

what happened to the previous ceo?

 

 

I presume he's chained up in the basement for not making ebit.





Most of the posters in this thread are just like chimpanzees on MDMA, full of feelings of bonhomie, joy, and optimism. Fred99 8/4/21


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  #2735919 28-Jun-2021 17:46
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Fred99:

"XBox Game Bar" appeared on the "most used" list on the start menu on this PC, yet AFAIK has never been used, not even once.

 

Did it invite itself in with the last big update - along with the horrible annoying self-installing "news" widget on the taskbar?

 

 

You can try and get rid of the XBox junk by marking the large number of services involved with it as disabled, but even with everything apparently turned off there's still some XBox networking service running that I haven't figured out how to get rid of yet. Still, with everything else disabled I haven't had the game bar thing appear.

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  #2735922 28-Jun-2021 17:53
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freitasm:

Companies that go all green-washing to look good and overcharge for products that, at the same quantity, underperform when compared to cheaper and more available products.

 

 

Rule of thumb: If it has eco, enviro, or green in the name it's rubbish. Consumer a year or two back started including tap water in their dish wash/clothes wash/etc reports, an awful lot of the stuff that falls under that rule rated either the same as or maybe one or two percent better than tap water. One or two rated worse than tap water, but I assume that's due to measurement error.

 

 

There's a reason why products that do certain things have, shock, horror, chemicals in them, it's what makes them work. When you replace the active ingredients with sunshine and tree hugs and vegan unicorn farts then it doesn't work any more. Prime example: Non-systemic herbicides. "Systemic" means "it gets into the plant and kills it". "Non-systemic herbicide" therefore means "it doesn't get into the plant and kill it", it's an oxymoron.

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  #2735925 28-Jun-2021 17:59
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elpenguino:

Cos lobbying and money. And my freedoms.

 

 

Nothing to do with that, it's because containers that are specifically designed for it work but anything else doesn't. Prime example: Milk bottles, wide open neck, thick heavy glass, easily-removed disposable cap, no labels stuck to it, and no corners or rims to catch on anything, the whole thing is totally designed to be washable and reusable. Everything else isn't because it wouldn't work in the market - would you buy jam in a thick heavy glass bottle (costing 25% more than the competition) with an aluminium pop top and no labelling telling you what it is, what the ingredients are, or when it expires?

 

 

Oh, yeah, things that annoy me: People who want to turn the simplest thing into a conspiracy.

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  #2735928 28-Jun-2021 18:02
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Fred99:

Shiny clean unmarked 4WDs with body lift, mud tyres, snorkel, LED floodlights, all have two dipsticks as a standard feature.

 

 

Two dipsticks? When I see them on the road there's almost always only one person in there.

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  #2735929 28-Jun-2021 18:11
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SirHumphreyAppleby: Do I even need to say why?

 

 

 

Do I laugh or do I cry?

 

This logo is beyond ridiculous. It's rubbish.

 

Stuff - NZ Post spends $15 million on a new look to unite its courier brands

 

I think I'll cry - I'm a tax payer.   😞

 

 

 

 





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